Issue No. 17 (Week of December 06 to 10

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From the Middle School Office

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Dear Parents:

The MS Art Exhibit opens on Monday, December 6 at 3:00 P.M. in the FATGallery, and student pieces will be on display for the week. Please stop bywhen you have the time and enjoy the creative work of our MS students.

This week the Middle School will be celebrating Spirit Week. On Monday wewill have an activity period during last period and students are permitted towear their House shirt to school. Students will be engaged in activities tobuild House spirit in preparation for the pep rally and Sports Day next week.If your child has PE on Monday, please remind your child that s/he still needs

to bring the PE uniform to school. Starting on Tuesday, each day has beenassigned a specific theme and all students are encouraged to dressaccordingly:

Tuesday Pajama Day

Wednesday Disney Day

Thursday Mime Day

Friday Free Dress Day

Monday Superhero Day

While we do want the students to enjoy the time out of uniform, pleaseencourage your child to exercise sound judgment when choosing their attireso that they arrive at school dressed appropriately (no bare midriffs,spaghetti straps, baggy pants, etc.). Please also remember that studentsshould not bring to school any weapon or copy thereof when dressed incostume. If your child opts not to dress in the theme of the day, your child isexpected to be in school uniform.

On Friday of Spirit Week, the Student Council has organized the MS HolidayBall for grades 7 and 8. Permission slips will be distributed to studentsthrough Homebase. In order to attend, your child must submit a signedpermission slip and purchase a ticket. We encourage all students to attendand are looking forward to 100% participation. The party will be a greatopportunity to spend time with friends, have some spirited fun and celebratethe end of the semester!

On Tuesday, December 14 the PE Department has organized a Sports Day.Each student has been assigned to a house Aklan, Baguio, Cebu, or Davao and will have opportunities to participate in events throughout the day. Allparents are invited to attend and cheer on their child.

On Wednesday, December 15 students will be dismissed at 12:00 noon.Please make the necessary transportation arrangements so that your child ispicked up promptly at dismissal time.

Danielle Fredericks Clarissa SaysonMiddle School Principal Middle School Assistant Principal

ISSUE # 17

WEEKOF DECEMBER 06 TO 10, 2010

Middle School

MIDDLE SCHOOL

POWERSCHOOL GRADE UPDATEPOWERSCHOOL GRADE UPDATE

Dec. 10 Grade Update

Jan. 10 PowerSchool Closes

Jan. 21 PowerSchool Opens forSemester 1 Reports

Jan. 24 Semester 1 Report Card Distribtion (via courier)

Wanted: Sports Day VolunteersService & Environmental Learning UpdatesUpdating Parent Contact Information

2

MS Art ShowPoetry JamLost & Found Viewing

3

PTA General Meeting and Charity Bazaar 4

ATAC Announcements 5

MSMC Reading Suggestions for Gr. 5 & 6 9

MSMC Reading Suggestions for Gr. 7 & 8 1

AfterSchool Activities Reminders 6

Withdrawal Procedures from Admissions 7

Inside this issue:

UPCOMING EVENTSUPCOMING EVENTS

DECEMBER

06 MS Art Exhibit Opening(3:00 P.M., FAT)

07 PTA General Meeting &Charity Bazaar (7:30 A.M., LT)

07 MS Beginners Recital(5:30 P.M., LT)

07-13 MS Spirit Week

10 Grade 7 & 8 Holiday Ball(5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.)

13 MS Sports Day Pep Rally(2:00 P.M., MS Gym)

14 MS Sports Day

15 Student Early Release (12:00 P

16-Jan. 07 Semester Break

JANUARY

10 Classes Resume

19-23 AMIS Band

06-10 MS Art Exhibit

25 PTA Bearcat Welcome(7:30 A.M., LT)


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M IDDLE SCHOOL FRIDAY BULLETIN PAGE 2

CCV Diaper Drive Concludes Friday, December 10th. Biodegradable diapers can be ordered at

the cashiers. Please Bring donations to your home base. The home base with the most Diapers

gets a Free Dress Day!

CCV Saturday, 11th December- Permission slips now available at MS Guidance. Please return by Thursday.

Community Garden Extension- Saturday 11th December Come along any time between 9:00 A.M. - 2:00

P.M. to help extend the community garden here at ISM. Remove the grass, dig up the ground, build the fence

and fill in the soil.

PCF - Saturday, 22nd January- Here at ISM. We will entertain the kids from PCF in a range of fun activities.

We need students who can do art, sport and music activities. Permission slips will be available after Christ-

mas break at MS Guidance.

Check out the BLOG- http://ms-eco.ism-online.org/ for updates, images of service and more.

Tara Barton

HS/MS Visual Art- 1169

MS Service and Environmental Learning Coordinator

[email protected]

http://ms-eco.ism-online.org/

Service and Environmental Learning Updates

Dear Parents,

Preparation for Sports day is already underway and we are looking for some parents (DADS

AND MOMS) to get involved. We would like to arrange some parent teams to compete with

the students in the afternoon ofDecember 14th from about noon until 3pm. We also need some volunteers

to help run the PTA food booth all day. If you are interested or would like more information please contact

the MS Guidance Office at 845-8555 or email [email protected] .

Wanted: Sports Day Volunteers!

In order to best serve the ISM Parent Community it is essential that information be quickly disseminated when necessary.

For this reason, the accuracy of your contact details in our data base is of the utmost importance. Please note that Par-

ent Contact Information must be updated online by the parent. However submitted information will be screened for

correct format and the parent may be called for clarification. To make any changes or verification in contact informa-

tion, please access one of your childrens data file via the ISM website (www.ismanila.org) and then under Login, click

on Powerschool Public Access and enter your Username and Password.

On the page that opens, click on the Demographic Update icon for changing or updating demographic information. Note

that if there are siblings also enrolled in ISM, changes will automatically be made in the data files of all other enrolled

siblings in the same family at the same time.

Updating Parent Contact Information


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From the PTA


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From the Athletics and Activities Office

ISM Basketball InvitationalLast weekend ISM hosted 3 local schools for the HS boysand girls basketball invitational. Our ISM boys team, de-spite being decimated currently with injuries, put up agreat effort vs. Don Bosco and Claret to lose both gamesby 2 points in the dying seconds. The boys showed greatdetermination to battle hard against a superior team in LaSalle Zobel on Saturday morning but they were simply toogood and ran away with a victory. La Salle went on todefeat Claret in the final 90-40 in a one sided affair.

Our Bearcat girls showed some great form and solid de-fense to win their first two games and then narrowly losttheir Saturday morning game against UA & P. This 2-1record got them into the final for a rematch with Univer-sity of Asia and Pacific and after going down by 14 pointsin the 2nd quarter the Bearcats fought their way back intothe game.

In the dying seconds and being a point down ISM was ableto steal the ball and make a layup attempt but the ballwould not drop and U A&P won a very exciting match.This was great IASAS preparation for our girls team to play4 games over the Friday/Saturday and really help givethem confidence for a great IASAS tournament in January.

Well done to both our girls and boys teams last weekendand the coaches.

IASAS BASKETBALL HOUSINGIASAS Basketball will be taking place at ISM January 27-29, 2011 and housing placements are now being accepted.As of this week we have 35 students housed but we re-

quire 100 housing slots in total.

All 1st season athletes who were housed, this is your timeto fulfill your responsibility and offer housing for Basket-ball. All varsity and JV basketball teams should also havereturned housing forms by now as well. Please support theATAC Department by getting these forms in ASAP. Itwould be great to have the housing completed before wego on Christmas break! Go Bearcats show your pride andsupport of the program and get behind our teams by host-ing a pair of visiting players from our IASAS sister schools.Housing forms are available from ATAC office or on theATAC Blog athttp://atac.ism-online.org/iasas-basketball-jan-26-31-

2011/

ATAC ANNOUNCEMENTS:GAME SCHEDULE INFORMATION:Information about all mid week/weekend fixtures for ISMteams can be found by going to the GAME SCHEDULE tabon the ATAC page of the ISM website. You can also accessthis information via the ES/MS/HS divisional web pages.Please note the game schedule does change often due toinvolvement with many local schools so please check thepage regularly to find out the latest information of whereand when the Bearcats teams are playing. Access to thegame schedule page is also available via the ATAC blog.Click on the Bearcat logo to be directed to the gameschedule page. http://atac.ism-online.org

ATAC HIGHLIGHTS/UPDATES - NOVEMBER/DECEMBER:(for ALL match/schedule details check game schedulepage as above)

MS/JV rugby vs. BSM in ISM - December 3, from 3:30

P.M. Varsity/JV Rugby in Brent - December 4, from 3:00

P.M.

Varsity/JV/MS Touch at ISM vs. Faith/Brent - December4

Varsity/JV Tennis at CSA Dec 4

MS Tennis at ISM Dec 4

Wall climbing Invitational Dec 11

PRFU Juniors MS/JV Rugby at ISM 8am-Noon

Last Day of School for 2010 DEC 15th Noon dismissal

BEARCAT DEN:Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den:

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11:30 A.M.

1:00 P.M. and 2:30 4:00 P.M. Tuesdays and Thursdays afternoons from 2:30 - 4:00

P.M.Thanks to all our great volunteers. The Bearcat Den willgo into Christmas hibernation from Tuesday, December 14and will reopen on Wednesday, January 12th, 2011.

Please note that the bearcat den will be closed during ourPM shifts next week due to the HS ICARE program.The week after that (final week of school prior to Christ-mas break) the den will be closed. The Den will re-openfor business on Wednesday, January 12th, 2011.To all our valued customers thanks for your support thisschool year to date, we wish you the best for the Christ-mas break and see you all in 2011.

RegardsBearcat Den Volunteers

Mark PekinDirector of Athletics/ActivitiesInternational School ManilaE-mail:[email protected] Website:http://www.ismanila.org/Blog: http://atac.ism-online.org/


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From the MS Afterschool Activities Office


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Dear Parents,

If you will be withdrawing your child(ren) before the start of the second semester or at some other timebefore the close of this school year, please read the following information carefully.

Withdrawing from International School Manila

First of all, we are sorry that you will be withdrawing, or not re-enrolling, your child in International

School Manila. We hope, however, that their stay, whether for one semester or for many years, was en-

riching and rewarding academically, socially and emotionally.

In order to make the withdrawal process go as smoothly as possible, we would like to remind you of the

following:

STEP 1: Please come by the Admission Office to fill out, sign and return a Withdrawal Notification

Form. The form is also available on the ISM website to download and print and it can also be faxed back to

the Admission Office at 840-8489.

STEP 2: If the student will be withdrawing BEFORE the last day of this school year, parents or stu-

dents need to pick up the following forms from the Admission Office (or download and print the appropriate

form):

The Withdrawal Clearance Slip should be taken to the indicated teachers and offices for

signatures.

High SchoolStudent Withdrawal Clearance Slip (Grades 9-12)

Middle SchoolStudent Withdrawal Clearance Slip (Grades 6-8)

For elementary students, the elementary office will handle the withdrawal clearance form

for them.

To receive the childs YEARBOOK, if withdrawing before the end of the school year, com-

plete and return the correct form to the childs school office for follow-up.

Elementary School Yearbook: ALAALA

Middle School Yearbook: SALINLAHI

High School Yearbook: KAWAYAN

Note that school transcripts and records will be available from the particular school office

approximately 5-working days after the childs last day of attendance at ISM. Please coor-

dinate directly with the particular school office if you require other arrangements.

Withdrawal Procedures from the Admissions Office


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STEP 3: When completed, the Withdrawal Clearance Slip must be taken to the Accounting Office

Cashier. Only after the Accounting Office Cashier has received and signed the completed Withdrawal Clear-

ance Slip will the childs transcript or school records be released from the Elementary, Middle or High

School Office. Please note that one copy of the transcript is provided free of charge, additional copies cost

P100 each, payable at the Cashiers Office before release. Please coordinate directly with the particular

school office if you require more than one copy of school records.

STEP 4: The refund of the Facilities Upgrade Deposit (FUD) will be available approximately 15-

working days after the signed Withdrawal Notification Form, by the parent, is given into the Admission

Office. However, in any event, it cannot be released before the childs last day of attendance at ISM and

the completed Withdrawal Clearance Slip is signed by the Cashier. The refund check can be picked up from

the Accounting Office Cashier only upon return of the original signed FUD certificate. Note that the refund

of the deposit shall only be made to the person or authorized company representative whose name appears

as the certificate holder on the certificate. Please call the Cashier if you have any question about this.

Please allow the withdrawal process to go smoothly by starting the process early. Thank you for your help

and understanding.

If you need help searching for a school at your next location, please try one of the following websites:

http://www.ecis.org/http://www.nais.org/index.cfm

http://www.internationalschools.net/

http://www.eteach.com/hosted/schoolList.asp?list=international

or use a search engine and query independent school search or international school search or private

school search for example

Again, we hope that your child has had a successful and enriching stay at International School Manila and we

wish you and your family the very best in the future. If you have any suggestions or comments about Admis-

sion, School Life, and/or Withdrawal, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

Gary W. Jerome Margie Endelman

Director of Admission Deputy Director of Admission

[email protected] [email protected]


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